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Hackney Council backs Edmonton incinerator despite fears over 'dirtiest form of power'

Scientists warn that burning non-food waste is a 'disaster' for the climate

Author: Hackney Citizen

Hackney Council backs Edmonton incinerator despite fears over 'dirtiest form of power'

Over 200 fossil fuel ad campaigns shown on TfL network since Sadiq Khan set out ‘zero carbon’ goal

The figures come after UN Secretary-General António Guterres urged every country to ban such advertising

Author: Noah Vickers, Local Democracy Reporter

The Citizen Gardener: ‘In nature, plants look after themselves, but people can forget, go away, or just give up’

Kate Poland’s guide to growing in small spaces, based on her first year as the gardener for an entire Hackney postcode

Author: Kate Poland

The Citizen Gardener: ‘In nature, plants look after themselves, but people can forget, go away, or just give up’

The Citizen Gardener: ‘I’ll put up with being labelled a vandal’

Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland on smashing up paving and sowing seeds

Author: Kate Poland

The Citizen Gardener: ‘I’ll put up with being labelled a vandal’

Smashing success: 10xGreener’s depaving event gives Hackney neighbourhood a lift

A team of volunteers broke up concrete and brick to make way for plants and wildlife for ‘Nature is Smashing’ get-together

Author: Max Eckersley

Smashing success: 10xGreener’s depaving event gives Hackney neighbourhood a lift

Smash up paving and make space for nature at groundbreaking 10xGreener event

‘If a lot of people make a little space, we can make a difference’, says postcode gardener Kate Poland

Author: Hackney Citizen

Smash up paving and make space for nature at groundbreaking 10xGreener event

The Citizen Gardener: ‘You don’t need a big space’

Award-winning community gardener Kate Poland has a few tips and tricks for growing in confined conditions

Author: Kate Poland

The Citizen Gardener: ‘You don’t need a big space’

The Citizen Gardener: ‘Insects keep the whole lot of us going’

In the first in a new column, award-winning community gardener Kate Poland tells us the dos and do-nothings that can help our insects

Author: Kate Poland

The Citizen Gardener: ‘Insects keep the whole lot of us going’

UK’s first ever postcode gardener gets to work in Homerton

Award-winning grower Kate Poland picked to beautify E5 over the next year

Author: Max Eckersley

UK’s first ever postcode gardener gets to work in Homerton

Homerton residents launch campaign to hire a gardener for an entire postcode

Crowdfunder builds on recent project to make one road in E5 ten times greener

Author: Hackney Citizen

Homerton residents launch campaign to hire a gardener for an entire postcode

Hackney councillor Jon Burke wants libraries to lend out power tools and kitchen appliances

But head of free market thinktank says he is sceptical about the idea taxpayer-funded authorities should buy goods on public’s behalf

Author: Hackney Citizen

Council launches £640k recycling rewards scheme despite ‘mixed results’

Government-funded initiative is part of a fresh drive to boost stagnant recycling rates in Hackney, but research suggests such schemes are ‘unreliable’

Author: Hackney Citizen